Have some news you want to share with the whole of International Reading Association? Want to spotlight a colleague’s accomplishment or announce your own? In the ongoing effort to better serve our subscribers, Reading Today recently started a “Member Spotlight” section with the spotlight on—you guessed it—our members.

If you take a look at the September/October issue of the magazine, you’ll notice the section has pertinent information about free benefits for IRA members, as well as a new feedback page called “In Your Words.” Starting in the November/December issue, we’ll take it a step further with our “News & Notes” member news page.

Members should submit career news, including new books published (professional development, fiction, nonfiction, etc.), awards/grants, promotions/retirements, and the like. Please include contact information and links to background information, if applicable, for verification. Photographs must be 300 dpi for reproduction and may be PNG, JPEG or GIF files. Submissions, which must be 200 words or less, may be edited for clarity or length, and IRA reserves the right to all final editorial decisions. Due to space, anything not included in Reading Today may be published on Reading Today Online.

Submissions should be sent either in Word or copied into the e-mail, with separate photo attachments, to readingtoday@/ with the subject line “News & Notes.”

For your news to be included in the debut “News & Notes” page in the November/December issue, submissions must be sent by Oct. 8.

April Hall is the editor of Reading Today Online. She can be contacted at ahall@/.